Best of the Blogs: Turning Petty

Progress Florida Education Center's Best of the Blogs for the week ending 7-6-12
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Pam Bondi: Turning Law Enforcement Into Petty Partisanship
By Kartik Krishnaiyer
The Political Hurricane
The Republican Party of Florida has waited years to have an Attorney General like this.

America's Day of Independence and Our Natural Dependence on One Another
By Benjamin J. Kirby
The Spencerian
Somewhere in the deep vaults of the Kirby Family Archive are a couple of great pictures of me, my brother and my sister as kids.

Rick Scott Wants Sick, Poor And Uninsured Floridians To Stay That Way, Refuses To Implement "Obamacare"
By Inkberries
Beach Peanuts
Contrary to what he said just days ago, Florida Governor Rick Scott said last night he refuses to comply with President Obama's Affordable Care Act, which was upheld by the Supreme Court this week.

Look to Florida Bay: when forests are destroyed, what happens under conditions of global warming?
By Gimleteye
Eye on Miami
Forest managers say, get ready for more epic fires in the American west.

The efficiencies of publicly provided health care, revisited
By Andrew Fieldhouse
Economic Policy Institute
Following the Supreme Court's ruling in favor of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) and its lynchpin--the individual mandate--my colleague Josh Bivens noted all the ways conservatives have tried to keep health care from being delivered efficiently, notably by blocking government from using its monopsony power and economies of scale wisely.